But because his mom died at age 43, “and there were nine of us,” he and his siblings were more focused on the present than the past when they were young. Matt Newman, great-great-grandson of Patrick Donnelly-who escaped his family's fate since he lived in Thorold at the time instead of Lucan-said he remembers studying with the rest of his class about his ancestors being killed. Produced by Tom Barton and Ray Fazakas, it revealed the sad, true story of how their great-grandparents and other family members were brutally murdered by a posse of 40 townspeople in the wee hours of Feb. The family gathered for a follow-up spring visit to the Donnelly Museum in downtown Lucan this past week, and sat together to watch a short film, The Strange Story of the Donnellys. Catharines, and met his new family for the first time this past winter. 4, 2019 - Jim Cameron contacted members of the Newman clan in St. Catharines cousins existed.īut after reading an article online about Patrick Donnelly’s descendants in the Thorold News - published on the anniversary of the horrific massacre of their ancestors on Feb. Up until a few months ago, the great-grandchildren of the famous “Black Donnellys” - who live in Brantford-didn’t know their St.
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